Comments on: Symbian deal a catalyst for smartphone competition

World's leading smartphone operating system will evolve into an open-source consortium to meet challenges posed by upstarts determined to carve out their own niche.

[Dani210]

Android better beat out Microsoft!

[Shig2k1]

My last Symbian phone was the SE M600i. Great phone to use, but the software was buggy as hell. 9 months after I bought the phone, I hear that SE's not supporting UIQ3 anymore!? I'm never going back to Symbian again.

[billeeyum]

I don't see Apple taking a major seat unless they decide to let other companies use their software on non-apple devices. And if there mobile market turns out anything like their computer branch, they won't. This would leave Andriod, LiMo, Symbian, and Microsoft as the big players with Apple essentially filling the role in the mobile phone industry that it currently holds in the pc industry.

[Michael-Martin]

This is not stating it will happen but purely a prediction.

Mr Gold told me, "We have not sited any sources at either Symbian or Google for this report, as it is conjecture on our part, based on market analysis and what we believe should take place to advance the mobile market"

I will have more information on this at http://www.googleandblog.com/

,Michael Martin